Under an ordinance drafted by two members of the city's governing board of supervisors, new office complexes would not be able to contain an employee cafeteria.
The council spent a year struggling with an earlier ordinance drafted by the city attorney's office.
At the first public hearing of the Planning Commission in April, the city dusted off a proposed animal ordinance drafted in 1979 in response to complaints.
The campaign finance ordinance, drafted by a citizens committee, was eventually approved on a 5-0 vote, despite concerns about the spending cap.
Although the City Council voted to have the rezoning ordinance drafted, it is not clear whether a majority will support the law, especially if it would halt the Uke project, which has received the go-ahead from various city agencies.
The complex ordinance, drafted to comply with a 1979 state zoning law, would prohibit new buildings from exceeding heights or densities established by a series of area community development plans already adopted by the City Council.
Before disembarking from the Mayflower in 1620, the Pilgrim founders, led by William Bradford, demanded that all the adult males aboard who were able to do so sign a compact promising obedience to the laws and ordinances drafted by the leaders of the enterprise.
So now to ponder details, As I reviewed the current version of the ordinance draft, it was clear the that City of Los Angeles had specified a data collection and reporting request that seeks to get banks to translate the nature of their business activities into measurement language that city governments can understand.
It's my read that by combining the suggestion above for banks with local branches with the tenets of the current ordinance draft language requesting distilled data into zip codes there's plenty of wiggle room for presentation of evidence of local involvement by these larger institutions, even those that do not have physical branches in the region.
It's simple, he says: "I don't like their technology, and I don't want their technology". City Council President Herb Wesson said Tuesday that he wants the ordinance draft to go through council committees again before it returns to the full council for a final vote.
It is a matter of us getting through before the new ordinance becomes effective". It is likely to be about four months before the new ordinance is drafted, city officials said at the council meeting Tuesday.
